Unreal NYC | December Event

Hosted by the School of Visual Arts
Food & Swag Sponsored by Epic Games

Join us for our next Unreal NYC Meetup, where we dive into all the latest features of Unreal Engine and network with other professionals in games, animation, film, broadcast, live events, and more.

​Each meetup features technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts.

Working on something cool in Unreal? Mention it and bring it along! We'll encourage everyone to try each other's demos and provide feedback.

SPEAKERS
Andrew Delgado, ICRAVE
“Evolution of Arch Viz Pipeline: A Battle to Real-time”
Trials and tribulations of trying to achieve the ultimate goal for architectural visualization: Matching offline render quality in a real time environment. Spoiler, its not easy and I did not ultimately succeeded but I will go over what I learned and what to try and not try.

Andrew is a Digital Artist serving as the Technical Director of Visualization at Journey. Driven by a deep love for architecture and technology. Always experimenting with new workflows and techniques to build the most compelling digital worlds. Thrive on turning ideas into visual storytelling experiences that inspire.
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Yu-Jun Yeh, Agile Lens
“Ghosts of Performances Past: Capturing the Live VR Theatre with Unreal Replays”
Jun will share her experience using Unreal’s replay system to record and play back Agile Lens’ iconic annual VR performance, A Christmas Carol VR. Each year, Agile Lens takes on a new technical challenge, and this year’s goal is to capture the entire show—without a traditional production pipeline. Jun will chat about the surprises she ran into while making the replay plugin and pass along some helpful notes for anyone thinking of doing something similar.

Jun is an XR Creative Technologist with a background in architecture, primarily focused on developing XR experiences in Unreal Engine. Her work spans web-streaming interactive experiences, AR, MR, VR, LBE, and both single-device and cross-platform environments. She has contributed to a wide range of projects—from large-scale shared LBE in VR (Four Seasons Lake Austin), web-based interactive theater (The Orchard), full-body motion-capture performance in VR (A Christmas Carol VR), mixed-reality theater (Your Mind, Girls…), and location-based VR installation (Royal Caribbean’s Perfect Day Mexico VR).
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Ajinkya Hukerikar, Zero Density
“Broadcast to Cinema: Building Scalable Virtual Production Systems”
Camera tracking protocols, network architecture, timecode sync, GPU thermal management, real-time compositing pipelines, and color management workflows. Learn the technical stack that keeps broadcast VP running 24/7 and how to scale these principles from $15K indie setups to enterprise deployments. Real architecture, real failures, real fixes.

Ajinkya Hukerikar is a Filmmaker and XR Technologist based in New York. He deploys virtual production systems for major broadcast networks and Fortune 500 clients through his work at Zero Density. His films have screened internationally, and his most recent short “Dulo” is currently on the festival circuit. An NYU alumnus, he’s authoring a book on democratizing immersive technologies.
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